{"id":89649,"date":"2018-04-01T21:34:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T01:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89649"},"modified":"2018-03-31T20:50:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T00:50:33","slug":"the-votes-are-in-and-rosamond-gifford-zoos-new-penguin-chicks-name-is-felix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89649","title":{"rendered":"The votes are in, and Rosamond Gifford Zoo\u2019s new penguin chick\u2019s name is \u2026\u00a0F\u00e9lix!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The votes are in, and Rosamond Gifford Zoo\u2019s new penguin chick\u2019s name is \u2026\u00a0F\u00e9lix!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Rosamond Gifford Zoo held an online naming vote this week for the new Humboldt penguin chick that hatched there on February 25. The winning name, F\u00e9lix, meaning \u201cLucky,\u201d received 264, or 34 percent, of the 769 votes cast.<\/p>\n

Rafael, \u201chealing angel,&quot; came in second with 176 votes. Inigo, \u201cFiery,\u201d and Oscar, \u201cfriend of\u00a0deer,\u201d were nearly tied for third place with 143 and 146 votes respectively, and Garc\u00eca, a common Spanish surname, received 40 votes.<\/p>\n

The nominated names were chosen by the zoo\u2019s penguin care staff in keeping with the origins of Humboldt penguins, which are native to the Humboldt Current along the coast of\u00a0Peru and Chile.<\/p>\n

The new chick is the 55th Humboldt penguin to hatch at the zoo since it began participating in\u00a0the Association of Zoos &amp; Aquariums\u2019 Species Survival Plan (SSP) for Humboldt penguins in 2006.<\/p>\n

F\u00e9lix\u2019s parents are Frederico and Poquita, who have had 12 other chicks hatch at the zoo. The zoo has sent Humboldt penguins raised here to several other AZA-accredited zoos\u00a0to maintain the species through the SSP.<\/p>\n

F\u00e9lix is growing fast. He weighed 69 grams on hatching, and as of today he is nearly 2,000 grams, or 4.4 pounds. He will remain in the nursery for a couple more months before joining the rest of the colony in the zoo\u2019s Penguin Coast habitat this summer.<\/p>\n

Humboldt penguin populations have been declining in the wild due to human encroachment\u00a0on their breeding sites. The Rosamond Gifford Zoo currently has a colony of 35 Humboldt penguins, including last year\u2019s chick, Emilio, whose name also was selected in a naming vote.<\/p>\n

The zoo will be celebrating World Penguin Day Wednesday, April 25, with a Penguin Keeper Chat at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The votes are in, and Rosamond Gifford Zoo\u2019s new penguin chick\u2019s name is \u2026\u00a0F\u00e9lix! The Rosamond Gifford Zoo held an online naming vote this week for the new Humboldt penguin chick that hatched there on February 25. The winning name, F\u00e9lix, meaning \u201cLucky,\u201d received 264, or 34 percent, of the 769 votes cast. Rafael, \u201chealing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23813,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-njX","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Felix-2.jpg?fit=576%2C396&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}